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The visitor to Wierzchownia was not wrong in thinking that Russia's natural productions must sooner or later be one of the chief supplies of the European market.
For he had now been in Wierzchownia almost twelve months, and his marriage, although ostensibly agreed upon, had not yet taken place, and he knew that in such a case the whole thing might fall through at any time, up to the very moment of the ceremony.
At the beginning of 1847, peace for a time visited Balzac's restless spirit. In February he went to Germany to fetch Madame Hanska, and leaving the Mniszechs to go back alone to Wierzchownia, she travelled with him to Paris, and remained there till April.
The inhabitants of the chateau were naturally much surprised at his sudden appearance, and Balzac considers that they were touched, or rather though he does not say this that She was touched by his empressement. He was much delighted with his surroundings. Wierzchownia was a palace, and he was interested and amused with the novelty of all he saw.
Balzac was in an enormous hurry to reach Wierzchownia, and set himself with much energy to the task of finishing the house in the Rue Fortunee. His efforts in this direction were doubtless the reason that the writing of "Pierre et Catherine" was postponed till the moujik could be studied in his native land.
But his one long dream was the only thing for which he cared; and though in an exoteric sense this dream came true, its truth was but a mockery. Evelina Hanska summoned him to Poland, and Balzac went to her at once. There was another long delay, and for more than a year he lived as a guest in the countess's mansion at Wierzchownia; but finally, in March, 1850, the two were married.
It is you, their grandmother, who have such ideas on family etiquette! You consider that your son, fifty years old, is obliged to write to his nieces! Balzac followed this with another letter, which apparently impressed on his mother that to please the Wierzchownia family she must behave very well to him; and this communication naturally annoyed Madame de Balzac even more than the preceding one.
At all events she is a refreshing figure in the midst of much that is unsatisfactory a woman witty, highly gifted, a queen of society, who was yet kindly, generous, and absolutely free from literary jealousy. Before the middle of September when Balzac left for Wierzchownia, we hear once of him again.
Hanska, who before her marriage was Countesse Eveline Rzewuska, who lived at her chateau of Wierzchownia, in Volhynia, with her husband, who possessed vast estates, and her daughter, Anna, who was still a child. Mme.
Balzac buys a house in the Rue Fortunee Madame Hanska's visit to Paris Balzac burns her letters Final breach with Emile de Girardin Balzac's projects for writing for the theatre He goes to Wierzchownia Plan for transporting oaks from Russia to France Balzac returns to Paris at the eve of the Revolution of 1848 Views on politics Stands for last time as deputy.
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